Ansel, comparing the U.S. to Mexico ignores that English Protestants spent 150 years persecuting each other until the Enlightenment forced a “peace treaty.”
The “Protestant worship” you credit didn’t stop Anglicans from jailing Baptists or Puritans from hanging Quakers; only the “ozone” of the First Amendment did that.
You’re enjoying the fruit of an English legal tree planted 300 years before Luther—the Magna Carta—which was a Catholic achievement.
Without the “Enlightenment fence” built by Deists to keep sects from bickering, those “pioneers” would have turned the colonies into a collection of warring theocracies.
America is a success because the Founders used Greco-Roman reason to manage religious zeal, not because they let one specific group’s “spirit” rule.
Giving all the credit to the “gardeners” while ignoring the “legal fence” and the “ancient roots” isn’t history—it’s just tribalism.
LOL, what a bunch of rambling off into the wild blue yonder to try to overcome a simple reality about America.